AirTouch Cellular Offers Pay-As-You Go Voice Mail to Minneapolis Customers.MINNESOTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 1999-- AirTouch Cellular customers in the Twin Cities who don't currently subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; regular voice mail service now can enjoy the convenience and flexibility of receiving messages without any monthly fees. The new Message Delivery Service is automatically available to AirTouch customers in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Message Delivery Service provides a pay-as-you-go alternative to voice mail by charging customers only for messages they choose to hear. Instead of a monthly charge, Message Delivery Service charges customers a flat fee of 50 cents plus airtime for listening to all messages delivered. The easy-to-use system works on both analog and digital phones and requires no set up by the customer. When callers leave voice mail, the Message Delivery Service calls the AirTouch customer to tell them that messages are waiting and plays a recording of the callers' names. Customers then have the option to listen to all of the messages for a 50 cent fee or erase all of the messages and pay nothing. "Message Delivery puts the power of choice in our customers' hands," said LeAnn Talbot, vice president of AirTouch's Midwest region. "Customers now can have the confidence they won't miss any important calls yet the choice of paying only for those messages they want to hear." AirTouch is offering the service free of charge through September 15. If for some reason customers don't want to take advantage of the Message Delivery Service, they can press (asterisk) 770 SND SND standardized normal deviation. from their cellular phone to remove the feature. To reactive the service, customers simply press (asterisk) 77 SND. AirTouch serves 9 million U.S. cellular U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is a super-regional cellular telephone provider, serving 5.8 million customers in 189 markets in 26 U.S. states. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Since April 2000, John E. and PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. customers on a proportionate basis. Its ventures operate in 25 states and 22 of the top 30 U.S. markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Miami, Phoenix, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Seattle. AirTouch is part of the Vodafone AirTouch Group, the world's largest wireless communications firm, based in the United Kingdom. It has mobile operations in 24 countries on five continents, with more than 31 million proportionate customers. For more information, visit the AirTouch web site at www.airtouch.com. |
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